New numbers from the Labor Department showed that November saw the creation of 178,000 jobs and an unemployment rate at 4.6 percent -- the lowest since August 2007, which was before the recession. We talk to an economist and public policy professor about what is behind the nine-year low in unemployment.

This fall is one of the warmest on record across Wisconsin. According to the National Weather Service, this fall is the second warmest on record in southern Wisconsin and the third warmest on record in the northern part of the state.

Earlier this week, Tom Frieden didn’t mince words about rampant drug use. Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said addicts who inject drugs are spreading a disease for which there’s no cure.

Judge James Peterson denied plaintiff's request to immediately stop the recount. Peterson scheduled a hearing on the case next Friday, saying he intends to rule on the plaintiff's motion to halt the recount that day, after hearing arguments.

The Future of the Family Commission, appointed by Gov. Scott Walker, identified 19 challenges facing families, including unplanned pregnancies, lack of quality education for high-risk youth and a lack of support for men's roles in sustaining families.

Michelle Litjens, a former Republican state assemblywoman from Oshkosh who has a son in the military, says she's encouraged by president-elect Donald Trump's pick of a recently retired Marine Corps general to head the Pentagon, despite concerns it would violate a law barring recent military personnel from the post.

Medical experts say while there's much to celebrate in terms of treatment and medical advances, there's still a lot work to be done to help reduce the number of HIV diagnoses in the state and throughout the world.

As Vilas county works to create a rollout plan for widespread broadband access, we hear from a member of the new group Universal Broadband Access Coalition about their efforts to bring broadband to underserved areas of southwestern Wisconsin and beyond.

The proposed reorganization of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is meant to free up staff time on paperwork and allow for more time to enforce laws and regulations, Gov. Scott Walker says.

To help push back against what he sees as a climate of fear and hate following Donald Trump's election, Masood Akhtar has a proposal to create an anti-hate group, or what he calls a registry, for Madison.

All Wisconsin counties were required to recount ballots for the 2016 presidential election after Green Party candidate Jill Stein requested and paid for the recount. It is the first statewide recount of a presidential election in the state's history and the first in the country since 2000.